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Madrid, April 2006 |
Managing HIV and Co-infection
27–28 April 2006, San Lorenzo de El Escorial,
Madrid, Spain
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Sanjay Bhagani
Dr. Bhagani is a Consultant Physician in Infectious
Diseases and HIV Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital. He has a special
interest in HIV/hepatitis co-infections and runs a large multidisciplinary
HIV/ hepatitis co-infection service at the Royal Free Hospital.
He has been involved in a study of viral relationships and risk-factors
for the recent epidemic of acute HCV in HIV-positive gay men in
the UK.
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Marta Boffito
Dr Boffito graduated from the University of Turin,
Turin, Italy in Medicine in 1996. She trained in general medicine
and infectious diseases at the University of Turin and at the University
of California at San Francisco, California, USA (with the Department
of HIV at the General Hospital) and became a specialist in Infectious
Diseases/HIV in 2001. Her HIV-related research was focused on antiretroviral
therapies and AIDS-related lymphoma. She obtained her PhD in 2004
at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (Department of Pharmacology
and Therapeutics, Prof. DJ Back) with a thesis entitled “Clinical
Pharmacology of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 Protease Inhibitors”
which covered the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antiretroviral
therapy for HIV. Currently, she is the Associate Director of the
Pharmacokinetic Research Unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital,
London, where, in addition to her clinical duties, she is heavily
involved in numerous clinical studies.
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 Martin
Fisher
Martin Fisher is a Consultant in HIV at Brighton
and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. He is responsible for
the outpatient and inpatient management of a large cohort of HIV
infected individuals, leads an active research team, and has established
an HIV/hepatitis co-infection clinic with local hepatologists. He
is an executive committee member of the British HIV Association,
a member of the HIV Special Interest Group of the British Association
for Sexual Health and HIV, and is the Convenor of the national Diploma
in HIV Medicine. His main clinical and research interests are in
antiretroviral therapy, primary HIV infection, HIV and hepatitis
co-infection, and the interplay between HIV and other sexually transmitted
infections.
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 Anna-Maria
Geretti
Dr Anna-Maria Geretti is a Consultant Medical Virologist
and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital in London,
where she heads the Retrovirology laboratory and also works as a
physician with a specialist interest in HIV medicine, viral hepatitis
and genital herpes. She trained in Italy, the Netherlands and the
UK, and holds an MD in Medicine and a PhD in the virology and immunology
of HIV infection. She is an executive member of the British HIV
Association (BHIVA) Executive Committee and contributes to the production
of the BHIVA Treatment Guidelines. She is an advisor to the British
National Formulary and editor of the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
and the Journal of HIV Therapy.
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 Santiago
Moreno
Santiago Moreno, MD is the Chief of the Department
of Infectious Diseases at the Hospital Ramón y Cajal, in
Madrid, a large referral hospital that treats approximately 1,800
HIV-infected patients (more than 1,400 are undergoing antiretroviral
therapy). Dr. Moreno graduated in Medicine at the Medical School
of the University of Murcia, Spain, in 1982. He completed his fellowship
in Infectious Diseases at the Department of Infectious Diseases,
Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, in 1987. In 1990, he had
a training period at the AIDS Clinical Research Centre at UCLA.
Dr. Moreno has been involved with HIV-infected patients since the
very beginning of the AIDS epidemic in Spain. He has collaborated
with the Spanish Ministry of Health in setting recommendations related
to clinical aspects of HIV infection/AIDS, regarding antiretroviral
therapy, resistance testing and opportunistic infections. Dr. Moreno
has developed intensive scientific activity. He has been a speaker
at multiple national and international meetings, symposia and conferences
and is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed national and international
papers. The main areas of HIV infection on which Dr. Moreno has
focused are different aspects of antiretroviral therapy and HIV-related
tuberculosis. His recent publications include reports in Annals
of Internal Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, AIDS, and
Archives of Internal Medicine.
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 Mike
Youle
After qualifying at Sheffield Medical School, UK,
Dr Mike Youle helped found the world-renowned Kobler Clinic in London
in 1986 as Clinical Trials Co-ordinator. Other than a 1-year stint
working as a Consultant for the World Health Organization’s
Global Programme on AIDS and the National Programme on AIDS in Kampala,
Dr Youle has devoted most of his career to the clinical care of
HIV patients. Since 1996 he has been the Director of HIV Clinical
Research at London’s Royal Free Hospital as well as an Honorary
Senior Lecturer in Public Health at its associated medical school.
His numerous professional activities currently include a visiting
professorship for Belgrade University and board/committee memberships
for organizations such as the International Association of Physicians
in AIDS Care, the British HIV Association and the MANON Therapeutic
Vaccine Programme. Dr Youle also serves as a trustee of the Red
Hot AIDS Charitable Trust and the National AIDS Manual, as well
as medical advisor to the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
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